Professor of Law and Robert E. Knowlton Scholar. (Criminal Law; Property; International Law; Property and Privacy; the Moral Puzzles of Criminal Law.) Professor Bergelson earned her diploma in Slavic languages and literatures with distinction from Moscow State University and her Ph.D. in philology from the Institute of Slavic and Balkan Studies in Moscow. She earned her J.D. cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was on the Law Review and was named to the Order of the Coif.

Professor Bergelson has been a lecturer at Moscow State University, the Polish Cultural Center, and the Literary Institute in Moscow. Before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2001, she was an associate with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York for six years. She is fluent in Russian and Polish and has a reading proficiency in Bulgarian, Belorussian, and Ukranian.

Among Professor Bergelson's publications are: "It's Personal but Is It Mine? Toward Property Rights in Personal Information," in the U.C. Davis Law Review (2003); "Victims and Perpetrators: An Argument for Comparative Liability in Criminal Law," a forum paper, and "Conditional Rights and Comparative Wrongs: More on the Theory and Application of Comparative Criminal Liability," a reply to commentators, both in the Buffalo Criminal Law Review (2005); and "The Right to Be Hurt: Testing the Boundaries of Consent," in the George Washington Law Review (2007). Her book Victims' Rights, Victims' Responsibilities: Comparative Liability in Criminal Law is due to be published by Stanford University Press in 2008.